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and equable attitude. It is thus the baser emotions and lower instincts are sublimated resulting in nobler virtues of universal kindness, equality, and brother-hood.
It is admitted by all that nowhere else, as in India, has the doctrine of Ahimsă, universal non-injury or non-violence, had so great and long continued an influence on national character. It is therefore, in the natural course of our national history and heritage that outstanding men and women of our land should adhere to vegetarianism, both in public and private, so that they might create a kindlier atmosphere round about them and prove themselves standards of high thinking and plain living
९६ : अगरचन्द नाहटा अभिनन्दन-ग्रन्थ
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